{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0057.tlg066.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg066.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0057.tlg066.local001","title":"De methodo medendi","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Galen","authorityName":"GALENUS Med.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0057-galenus/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0057-galenus/","editors":["Karl Gottlob Kühn"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"University of Leipzig","sourceTitle":"Claudii Galeni Opera Omnia","edition":null,"publisher":"Knobloch","place":"Leipzig","date":"1825","volume":"10","series":null,"citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"A Digital Corpus for Graeco-Arabic Studies, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation","sponsors":[],"funders":["Andrew W. Mellon Foundation"],"principal":null,"responsibilities":[{"role":"Published original versions of the electronic texts","names":[]},{"role":"Keyboarding","names":[]},{"role":"Editor-in-Chief, Perseus Digital Library","names":[]},{"role":"Project Manager (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Project Assistant (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Lead Developer (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Technical Advisor","names":[]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101073247403?urlappend=%3Bseq=13%3Bownerid=27021597768766401-13","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Galen. De methodo medendi. ed. Karl Gottlob Kühn. Claudii Galeni Opera Omnia, Leipzig, Knobloch, 1825. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0057.tlg066.local001","excerpt":"Ἐπειδὴ καὶ σύ με πολλάκις, ὦ Ἱέρων φίλτατε, καὶ ἄλλοι τινὲς νῦν ἑταῖροι παρακαλοῦσι θεραπευτικὴν μέθοδον αὐτοῖς γράψαι, ἐγὼ δὲ μάλιστα μὲν καὶ ὑμῖν χαρίζεσθαι βουλόμενος, οὐχ ἥκιστα δὲ καὶ τοὺς μεθ’ ἡμᾶς ἀνθρώπους ὠφελῆσαι καθ’ ὅσον οἷός τέ εἰμι προαιρούμενος, ὅμως ὤκνουν τε· καὶ ἀνεβαλλόμην ἑκάστοτε διὰ πολλὰς αἰτίας, ἄμεινον εἶναί μοι δοκεῖ καὶ νῦν αὐτὰς διελθεῖν, πρὶν ἄρξασθαι τῆς πραγματείας, ἔχουσι γάρ τι χρήσιμον εἰς τὰ μέλλοντα ῥηθήσεσθαι. κεφάλαιον μὲν οὖν ἁπασῶν αὐτῶν ἐστι τὸ κινδυνεῦσαι μάτην γράψαι, μηδενὸς τῶν νῦν ἀνθρώπων ὡς ἔπος εἰπεῖν ἀλήθειαν σπουδάζοντος, ἀλλὰ χρήματά τε καὶ δυνάμεις πολιτικὰς καὶ ἀπλήστους ἡδονῶν ἀπολαύσεις ἐζηλωκότων ἐς τοσοῦτον ὡς μαίνεσθαι νομίζειν εἴ τις ἄρα καὶ γένοιτο σοφίαν ἀσκῶν ἡντιναοῦν. αὐτὴν μὲν γὰρ τὴν πρώτην καὶ ὄντως σοφίαν, ἐπιστήμην οὖσαν θείων τε καὶ ἀνθρωπίνων πραγμάτων, οὐδ’ εἶναι νομίζουσι τὸ παράπαν· ἰατρικὴν δὲ καὶ γεωμετρίαν…","divisions":[{"label":"Book 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg066.local001/#tlg0057-tlg066-local001-1"},{"label":"Book 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg066.local001/#tlg0057-tlg066-local001-2"},{"label":"Book 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg066.local001/#tlg0057-tlg066-local001-3"},{"label":"Book 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg066.local001/#tlg0057-tlg066-local001-4"},{"label":"Book 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg066.local001/#tlg0057-tlg066-local001-5"},{"label":"Book 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg066.local001/#tlg0057-tlg066-local001-6"},{"label":"Book 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg066.local001/#tlg0057-tlg066-local001-7"},{"label":"Book 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg066.local001/#tlg0057-tlg066-local001-8"},{"label":"Book 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg066.local001/#tlg0057-tlg066-local001-9"},{"label":"Book 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg066.local001/#tlg0057-tlg066-local001-10"},{"label":"Book 11","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg066.local001/#tlg0057-tlg066-local001-11"},{"label":"Book 12","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg066.local001/#tlg0057-tlg066-local001-12"},{"label":"Book 13","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg066.local001/#tlg0057-tlg066-local001-13"},{"label":"Book 14","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg066.local001/#tlg0057-tlg066-local001-14"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg066.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0057.tlg066.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057/tlg066/local001.json.gz"}}